THE 60-foot Barnett twin-screw Boat now being built for New Brighton will be the most powerful Life-boat in the world, actually the largest is the new Dutch Motor Life-boat, the Brandaris, which was sent to her Station at Terschelling during...
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AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...
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Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of April, 1958, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Ros Caoin needed help at the mouth of the Kenmare River. At 6.30 the life-boat William and Harriot, on...
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GIFTS RNLI Videos Lifeboats 24/7 £8 (XT The story of the RNLI with rescue reconstructions I Building support for lifeboats £8.00* Constructing the lifeboat shore facilities Five minutes with the RNLI plus f) Saved by a motor...
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500 Days raise £40,000.
OVER 500 Life-boat Days have been held during the past year.
This sentence falls from the pen easily enough, but to those who know the anxieties and difficulties which...
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Imagine you’re out at sea, having fallen from a boat somewhere off the coast of the UK or Republic of Ireland. You’re treading cold, rough water.
And then you hear engines, and you see a splash...
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Coffee mates Pupils from Derwentwater Infants School, all aged between five and six years old, ran a parents' coffee morning last November, baking cakes and serving their guests themselves. Parents jumped at the chance to be served by...
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Congratulations to the six RNLI volunteers and staff recognised in the 2017 New Year Honours:
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE):
Vivienne Grey, a volunteer crew member at Little and Broad Haven...
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LI. HASTINGS.—The Charles Arkcoll, 34 feet by 8 feet 3 inches, 10 oars.
" Thou old sea town, crouching beneath the rocks, Like a strong lion waiting for his prey— Where are thy river, harbour, and the docks, In which...
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